What am in for?

calm down bro it's just bants that all

It's really blatant. That being said, for a film so blatant, the blatancy is done adequately, relative to what the film is trying to tell and achieve. There is a core reflection on modern social discourse regarding race politics that Peele obvious wanted to impart through a warped story. For what that is worth, he didn't completely fail to do that.

Yet for a horror, there's no real sense of tension in the film though until the last act, which isn't because Peele didn't try to craft tense scenes, but rather because they just held no threat. As a psychologically thrilling experience it sags as a result of the facile rich-folk setting and the irredeemably duplicitous villains held within it. By the end, the girlfriend and her family honestly just seemed like the bizarre, comical musings of a bitter Black man's take on african-american fetishization in the modern USA.

All the acting is okay, and the cinematography was decent, and certainly indicative of Peele's influences in old pulp horror, the likes of which were evident on his sketch show with Keegan-Michael Key. Yet for all its acclaim, I couldn't help but think the film was a decidedly shallow take on an idea that is nonetheless fundamentally interesting enough to garner wide discussion. And certainly from some avenues of modern critical circles, a degree of self-indulgent support.